Invest time, invest life
invest it all, reinvent yourself
before you know it
your essence is renewed with something fresh
Your will, your way
will earn respect in your day
let the glory sharpened knife
carve the future of your life

let’s not praise the past, just a fact
Built to last
old school or the new
doesn’t mean a thing if your heart’s not true
greedy ones faded fast, we’re here
Built to last
For the fun, not a fad
the love and the truth so powerful

work out the snags of the past
work out the snags that won’t last
mistakes have finished my brothers
mistakes will guide all the others
Your will, your way
might shape a better day
eradicate the stagnancy
eradicate it like disease

let’s not praise the past, just a fact
Built to last
old school or the new
doesn’t mean shit if your heart ain’t true
greedy ones faded fast, we’re here
Built to last
For the fun, not a fad
the love and the truth so powerful
the love and the truth so powerful

as we’ve seen around the world
We won’t go away
cause we’ll always feel this way
We’re here to stay
and our impact will be felt
We won’t go away
if we feel it, if we feel it
We’re here to stay
Built to last

Somewhere between happy, a total fucking wreck
Feet sometimes on solid ground, sometimes at the edge
Spend your waking moments, simply counting time
Give up on your hopes and dreams, give up on your…

[Chorus:]
Life for you, has been less than kind
So take a number, stand in line
We’ve all been sorry, we’ve all been hurt
But how we survive, is what makes us who we are

An obvious disinterest, we barely managed smile
I’ll take my little Greenland, a status quo exile
I shoot my obligations, I miss all those headlines
I started quitting early, you’re fucking up my life

[Chorus]

All smiles and sunshine, a perfect world on a perfect day
Everything always works out, I have never felt so fucking great
All smiles and sunshine, a perfect world on a perfect day
Everything always works out, I have never felt so great

(Life isn’t like this) [x4]
Life isn’t like this [x2] (Life isn’t like this) [x3]

Are we fudging on an answer, fucking up my…

[Chorus]

(Who we are)
It’s what makes us who we are
(Who we are)
Makes us who we are
(Who we are)
It’s what makes us who we are
(Who we are)

In fields where nothing grew but weeds,
I found a flower at my feet,
Bending there in my direction,
I wrapped a hand around its stem,
I pulled until the roots gave in,
Finding now what I’ve been missing,
But I know…
So I tell myself, I tell myself it’s wrong.

There’s a point we pass from which we can’t return.
I felt the cold rain of the coming storm.
All because of you,
I haven’t slept in so long.
When I do I dream of drowning in the ocean,
Longing for the shore where I can let my hair down,
I’ll follow your voice,
All you have to do is shout it out.

Inside my hands these petals brown,
Dried up, falling to the ground
But it was already too late now.
I push my fingers through the earth,
Return this flower to the dirt,
So it can live.
I walk away now.
But I know…
Not a day goes by that I don’t feel it’s spurn.

There’s a point we pass from which we can’t return.
I felt the cold rain of the coming storm.
All because of you,
I haven’t slept in so long,
When I do I dream of drowning in the ocean,
Longing for the shore where I can let my hair down,
I’ll follow your voice,
All you have to do is shout it out.

All because of you…
All because of you…

All because of you,
I haven’t slept in so long.
When I do I dream of drowning in the ocean,
Longing for the shore where I can let my hair down,
Inside these arms of yours.

All because of you,
I believe in angels.
Not the kind with wings,
No, not the kind with halos,
The kind that bring you home,
When home becomes a strange place.
I’ll follow your voice,
All you have to do is shout it out.

Tell me what I’m supposed to do,
With all these left over feelings of you;
‘Cause I don’t know

And tell me how I’m supposed to feel,
When all these nightmares become real;
‘Cause I don’t know

And I don’t think you see the places inside me that I find you,
And I don’t know how we separate the lies here from the truth;
And I don’t know how we woke up one day and somehow thought we knew
exactly what we’re supposed to do.

So leave me at the roadside,
And hang me up and out to dry;
So leave me at the roadside,
And hang me up and out to dry.

And I don’t think you see the places inside me that I find you;
And I don’t know how we woke up one day and somehow thought we knew
exactly what we’re supposed to do.

So leave me at the roadside,
And hang me up and out to dry;
So leave me at the roadside,
And hang me up and out to dry.

‘Cause I don’t think you see the places inside me that I find you,
And I don’t know how we woke up one day and somehow thought we knew
exactly what we’re supposed to do,
exactly what to do.

Chairs thrown and tables toppled,
Hands armed with broken bottles,
Standing no chance to win but,
We’re not runnin’, we’re not runnin’.

There’s a point I think we’re missin’,
It’s in the air we raise our fists in,
In the smiles we cast each other,
My sister, my brother.

About the time we gave up hope and
We never find these locks still open,
Stumbling on stones unturned,
The hurt we feel, we all have found.

The lives we’ve lost in such a change, but all they see is treason

[Chorus:]
Although we have no obligation, to stay alive
On broken backs we beg for mercy, we will survive
(Break out) I won’t be lifted
Behind closed doors.

Bonfires burn like beacons,
Guiding the lost and weakened.
Flames dance on crashing waves,
Guiding ships who’ve gone a stray

Time out, let’s stop and think this through,
We’ve all got better things to do,
A talk in circles run in place,
Answers inches from my face.

[Chorus]

Black eyes, broken fingers,
Blood drips and I let it run down my lips and to my swollen gums
When hope is non-existent,
Our lips all scream, “Run”,
We never turn our backs or even bite our tongue.

[Chorus x2]

Set me off like dynamite strapped tight around my waist
We are the ones in competition but claim this ain’t no race

(Let’s go!)

Take a breath and explode like bullets
Tearing through the wind
Cut me up with a razor blade
Then try to separate the skin
Now when the
White flames are burning flags
We found a world worth dying for yeah

We’ve been battered so hard that
We don’t feel anymore

Take me
From this world
Save me
What if we
Hold tight on?
So take me
From this world
Save me
What if we
Hold tight on?

Send me off on the morning breeze so far away from here
Fill your eyes in the strains of thought outside the warm embracing air
I’m moving slow
Like a glacier melting
Watch me dissipate
I switched to love in an empty world
But all I found was hate

Now when the
White flames are burning flags
We found a world worth dying for, yeah
We’ve been battered so hard that
We don’t feel anymore

Take me
From this world
Save me
What if we
Hold tight on?
So take me
From this world
Save me
What if we
Hold tight on?

Don’t ask me why
‘Cuz I don’t know
Don’t ask me how
I’m gonna solve this on my own
Don’t ask me why
‘Cuz I don’t know
These things I’ll never face
Scratch out the warning race
The wreckage of a job well done
I saw a place I’d never seen before, yeah
And that morning I refused to close my eyes anymore

Take me
From this world
Save me
What if we
Hold tight on?
So take me
From this world
Save me
What if we
Hold tight on?

So take me [2x]

[Spoken:]
The music played with a common frequency.
The speakers gently seeped the sound of ambient keyboards and light percussion,
creating a seductive soundtrack to our midnight drive through curtains of blackness.
The windows were cold to the touch, reflecting the icy conditions in our immediate extremity.
Salt stains and fingerprints littered the glass, and streets with melted snow cascaded down it’s length.
The music pulsed louder, yet gentle, like the far away squeal of a pot of boiling water.
The skylight was glowing faintly with a vague hints of an impending dawn.
The car raced along a painfully straight stretch of road,
and she hadn’t so much as turned the steering wheel two degrees in the past twenty minutes,
or hardly spoken.

As we were, so perfect ,so happy.
I’ll remember, only our smiles because that’s all they’ve seen.
Long since dried, when we are found, are the tears in which we had drowned.
As we were, so perfect, so happy.

[Spoken:]
“Why are you doing this?” she spoke without expecting a response.
Her voice penetrated the still air of our speechless drive, so silent my heart had jumped.
“I’m not doing anything,” I said, but I didn’t even believe that myself.
“This is what’s best, for me, for you, for us, or maybe just for me,” I thought,
as a tear formed in the pit of her eye. The music poured through the speakers
and we were losing ourselves in the cadence. She looked down momentarily and closed her eyes
for a bit longer than a standard blink. Then she was crying. Then she was shouting.
Then I was shouting, now pouring confessions, having no answers, or solutions,
and we barely could even hear the questions.

As we were, so perfect ,so happy.
I’ll remember, only our smiles because that’s all they’ve seen.
Long since dried, when we are found, are the tears in which we had drowned.
As we were, so perfect, so happy.

Don’t put me underground, I was meant for a life somewhere else.
Please Lord give me the way out before both of us haunt you.
We’ll steal tonight. (We’ll steal tonight.)

As we were, so perfect, so happy.
Don’t remember, only your smiles because that’s all they’ve seen.
Long since dried, when we are found, are the tears in which we had drowned.
As we were, so perfect, so happy.

[Spoken:]
Our cracking voices became part of the music.
The car pressed on faster through he night. As our voices lowered,
the cadence again overtook the air.
Up ahead there was a curve approaching.
She made no indications of slowing.

Deep inside these burning buildings
Voices die to be heard
Years we spent teaching a lesson
We ourselves had never learned

And if strength is borne from heartbreak
Many mountains I could move
And if walls could speak I’d pray
That they would tell me what to do

If you see me, please just walk on by, walk on by.
Forget my name and I’ll forget it too.
Failed attempts at living simple lives, simple lives,
Always keep me coming back to you.

No signs of life here, save the embers, the occasional flame,
We’d know the way but can’t remember, conception to the grave,
Jump confessions from the greatest heights, where no one can hear,
All my fears, my insecurities are falling like tears.

If you see me, please just walk on by, walk on by.
Forget my name and I’ll forget it too.
Failed attempts at living simple lives, simple lives,
Always keep me coming back to you.

The drones will slave away, they’re working overtime,
They serve a faceless queen, they never question why.
Disciples of a god, they neither live nor breathe,
(I won’t come back!)
But we have bills to pay, yeah we have mouths to feed!
(I won’t come back!)
I won’t come back!

If you see me, please just walk on by, walk on by.
Forget my name and I’ll forget it too.
Failed attempts at living simple lives, simple lives,
Always keep me coming back to you.

I’m coming back to you!

Warm yourself by the fire, son,
And the morning will come soon.
I’ll tell you stories of a better time,
In a place that we once knew.

Before we packed our bags
And left all this behind us in the dust,
We had a place that we could call home,
And a life no one could touch.

Don’t hold me up now,
I can stand my own ground,
I don’t need your help now,
You will let me down, down, down!

Don’t hold me up now,
I can stand my own ground,
I don’t need your help now,
You will let me down, down, down!

Down!

We are the angry and the desperate,
The hungry, and the cold,
We are the ones that kept quiet,
And always did what we were told.

But we’ve been sweating while you slept so calm,
In the safety of your home.
We’ve been pulling out the nails that hold up
Everything you’ve known.

Don’t hold me up now,
I can stand my own ground,
I don’t need your help now,
You will let me down, down, down!

Don’t hold me up now,
I can stand my own ground,
I don’t need your help now,
You will let me down, down, down!

So open your eyes child,
Let’s be on our way.
Broken windows and ashes
Are guiding the way.

Keep quiet no longer,
We’ll sing through the day,
Of the lives that we’ve lost,
And the lives we’ve reclaimed.

Don’t hold me up now,
I can stand my own ground,
I don’t need your help now,
You will let me down, down, down!

Don’t hold me up now,
I can stand my own ground,
I don’t need your help now,
You will let me down, down, down!

Don’t hold me up…
(I don’t need your help, I’ll stand my ground)
Don’t hold me up…
(I don’t need your help)
No! No! No!
Don’t hold me up!
(I don’t need your help, I’ll stand my ground)
Don’t hold me up!
(I don’t need your help, I’ll stand my ground)
Don’t let me down, down, down, down, down!

Wake me up inside
Tell me theres a reason
Take another step
To get up off me knees and,
Follow the path of most resistant
How ever it takes us,
Whatever it faces and wherever it leads,

Wake me when it’s through,
I don’t want to feel the things that you do
Don’t worry I’ll be fine
Don’t want this dream, wake me up inside

Something for the pain, just to kill this feeling
though we looked away, inside were all still sleeping
I spent my time here alive, but buried there
do you believe we will ever make it,
do you think we will ever really say.

Wake me when it’s through,
I don’t want to feel the things that you do
Don’t worry I’ll be fine
Don’t want this dream, wake me up inside

Wake me up inside
these dreams all tired
wake me up inside
today wont start if we just kill them
(CAUSE YOU’LL BE ANYTHING)

Just wake me when it’s through,
I don’t want to feel the things that you do
Don’t worry I’ll be fine
Don’t want this dream, wake me up inside